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Nigerian Engineers Will Soon Be Certified To Practice In 48 Nations – COREN President

The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria on Thursday
said certified engineers from Nigeria would soon be allowed to practice
in 48 countries across the globe.
Kashim Ali, the President of COREN, disclosed while speaking with newsmen in Katsina.
Ali said the development was part of efforts to make the profession meet international standard.
Ali said such engineers would soon be accepted in Asian and Pacific
nations, including China, Malaysia, India, South Korea, Australia and
Indonesia.
He further disclosed that these nations were blessed with huge economies with vast developments taking place there.
He said accepting engineers from Nigeria to practice would create opportunities for the professionals in the country.
The COREN president said such acceptance would put the nation’s
engineers in good stead and create opportunity for them “and for their
children who are yet to join the engineering profession”.
He said that to achieve this, the organisation had intensified its
continuous education scheme for its members to meet up with the global
trend.
Ali, however, said one big challenge the organisation was currently
facing was the problem of quacks who had been parading themselves as
engineers.
He said the issue of building collapse was mostly caused by those
quacks, who were not certified as engineers “but are only out to make
quick money”.
He said records had shown that 99.9 per cent of those involved in
building collapses in the country were not COREN members, adding:
“Engineering should be done by engineers.”